I understand your heartache with the Excursion. I also have a 2000 model but with the 6.8 liter V10 in it. I am presently getting 9.7 miles per gallon and of course it also has 44 Gallon capacity. Currently 87 ocatne here is running about $3.10 per gallon. I always seem to add pretty close to 40 gallons each time I fill up as well. Thats just under $125.00 to fill it up presently. I am thinking that you get better gas mileage with your diesel, about 12 miles per gallon?, but you also pay more per gallon for the price of diesel. I guess its a wash either way we just have to keep the wallet wide open.

 

Ouch! Is that all stop-n-go? Your fill-ups a bit cheaper but more numerous.
I avg. 15-15.5 on the diesel. 17.5 on the highway, and...given reasonably level ground and forcing yourself to obey all speed limits will squeeze 18.5 out of it. (I'm 2WD, btw)
15 figure is from 5 mile highway run to 20 mins of town / school drop-off / idle then 5 mi highway return. Same usage drops the S-types from 28-30 hiway to 19 daily avg.
Last fill-up, the pump cut me off at $125 - guage registered full but I think I had another 2 gal or so to go. ($3.30/gal)

x300 top-offs still in the $45-$55 range..haven't had the pleasure of having to do a re-swipe to get that one full!!!...so far.....
Haven't used it for kid-shuttle yet, but averaging 20-21 on work commute ~80 mi highway + 20 stop/go. round trip.

 

Gas is 2.99 usd for regular right now. Add 20 cents for high test. Subtract 10 cents for my Kroger card and that is $3.09 a gallon. It will probably cost me close to $60.00 this afternoon to fill up. I get about 16 mpg in my 95XJ6.

 

I do have 4WD but I get 9.7 meriles per gallon. It does not change if I run in the city or on the highway. It also does not change if I am pulling a loaded trailer as well. This past spring I pulled the boat out of the wetslip, brought it home and did some maintenance on it. Each way is about 45 miles most of which are highway miles and I still averaged 9.7 miles per gallon. The boat is 30' Bayliner which weighs in about 13,000 lbs on the trailer. The last time I tuned it up I got up to about 9.9 miles but that did not last very long. The tune up was new plugs, wires and 10 new coils at a cost of $38.00 per coil. Expensive little buggers but they were due. Needless to say the Excursion spends more time at home now than on the road.

 

Oops!!! I guess I goofed on "meriles". Still too young to edit on the website yet but I guess it is still pretty easy to interpret.

 

61.00 USD, How far can you go on a fill up?

 

hmmm...Stimie, you've surpassed 10 posts...wonder what's holding you out of editing? I can't recall all the rules, maybe just a switch a mod has to throw somewhere in the basement? Good thing it doesn't drop off when you tow, if your starting in the 9's! I have a 24' cargo/car-hauler and mileage drops off to about 9 pulling it - doesn't seem to matter whether or not it's loaded. Prior to that, various utility trailers of varying loads never seemed to affect mileage much...

Tcarby, getting more and more scarce to find premium at only $0.20 above regular. Many places now +$0.40. My Kroger card only good for $0.10/gal per fill for each $100 groceries purchased. $0.03 discount if I've used all my multiples of 100 pts. I usually hit those 2 or 3/mo with either the Excur (44 gal cap) or Pickoff truck (25 gal) for max benefit.

D-L, I'm averaging about 350 miles between fills on the '95 XJ, but could normally go 400+ Generally better competition, hence better prices down in the metroplex than here in our small town, so if I don't think I have an easy 100+ mi. left on a tank, (enough to get home, back to work next day, then to a fueling sta) I fill up before I leave FTW.

 

XJ6 sport 4.0

Petrol costs a hell of a lot more here due to the tax so next time you fill for under $70 remember 3/4's of a tank here was $118 for me and its just gone up loads now 130p per litre!

 

Around $60 from a sliver away from E to full.

 

$70.00 from empty.

 

108Cnd from just about empty....

 

$60 from 1/8 tank, I bought 91 octane $4.09 at Cosco. $4.09 is inexpensive here in S. California it is as high as $4.29 at other stations in Temecula/Ramona Ca

 

Here in Holland we pay for one tank(72 litre) €128,- ($182,-) for BP ultimate(octane 98).

 

I have no idea how much it costs to fill the tank of my 1995 XJ6 (X300) for the simple reason that I'm one of the poor people who sticks £20 worth of petrol in it and cries when the MPG - o - meter drops below 20.
In all seriousness, I can't see the point in putting half a dozen paving stones in the boot and carrying them round all day so I ain't going to do it with an equal weight in petrol in the tank.

 

74$ from plum empty to just over full.

BUT, am I shooting myself in the foot as 5tevie suggests by filling my tank? Does that extra weight really significantly sacrifice my mileage? If so, then at what point does carpooling backfire and begin to be less cost effective than driving alone? My friends weigh more than a couple paving stones.

 

Jack ... The simple answer is that if you drive enough miles to need to fill the tank every couple of days, or even more often than that, then it probably doesn't matter worth a fig but, for drivers like me who do maybe 30 miles a week, topping the tank would seem to be a waste of money in that a lot of the petrol will be being used to carry itself around.

 

So three months ago when I first replied to this thread it was costing me around $60. It now costs $80 and have to re-swipe my card at most stations to get that last two gallons in it.

That's a pretty big increase in just 90 days!

 

Yeah, I think I said it took around $45, now about $65. I was in a rush this morning, and just put $20 in. Driving past the station on my way home, gas went up $.05 a gallon FML!